Name: 【TED】Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces (Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces)
Uploaded: 2016-06-01T08:00:06.000Z
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if, indeed, there was any human agency involved

in its creation, if it didn't just sort of materialize

But I do have to be concerned with those things.

I've had to survive those changes and try

to understand their implications for what I do

This slide is about the effect of tools on form.

the one on your left, my right, is modern,

The curves have that kind of mathematical smoothness

cut in the resistant material of steel by hand.

None of the straight lines are actually straight.

It has that spark of life from the human hand

The tool is the same, yet the letters are different.

That's all. Zuzana wanted hers to look like that.

I wanted mine to look like that. End of story.

Unlike a fine art, such as sculpture or architecture,

I think of myself as an industrial designer.

from different interpretations by different designers?

as you might find in the work of a fashion designer,

with as many different variants as possible

I realized I could only actually make three

In Helvetica Compressed, Extra Compressed,

and Ultra Compressed, this rigid 18-unit system

Here are the typefaces, at least the lower cases.

"Poor Matthew, he had to submit to a problem,

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